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oakie

@geckomilk.bsky.social

♡Alien Princess ☆ she/they

♡Cross stitch, ferrets, gardening indoors

♡obsessed with my ferrets and greatly missing my ducks 🦆

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oakie @geckomilk.bsky.social · Sep 8

New cross stitch project 🐱🐸

A small square of white Aida cloth with a frog shaped green circle of cross stitch stitches on it and a blue grid of thread

oakie

@geckomilk.bsky.social

Denver decided he wanted to lay with me this morning and I may have cried at how sweet he is becoming

Sable ferret laying on a white and red blanket as viewed from above. A blurry leg is on the bottom.

December 13, 2025 at 2:31 PM

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Natee (they/them)

@himmapaan.bsky.social

A #PudgyHorse tribute to the Lascaux cave paintings, painted with the Strata Trio watercolours made by @thoughtsupnorth.bsky.social from Cretaceous rocks from the Albertan badlands. From 2020.

Might as well post this one as it's been stolen and sold on Australian Temu. 🙃

#ArtAdventCalendar

Painting of my character, Pudgy Horse, a horse of baroque type appearance with luxuriant mane and tail, and deliberately exaggerated proportions, including short, slender legs with dainty hooves and an extremely generous girth; here painted in tribute to one of the famous horses in the Lascaux cave paintings using similar colours and simplified shapes.

December 5, 2025 at 1:05 AM

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Foxfeather Zenkova

@foxfeather.bsky.social

Yolo often stands with his little back toes crossed, which I find ridiculously cute!
You can see vultures don't have bulky feet and talons built for grasping/carrying like other raptors. Their more chicken-like feet are meant for bracing on food to pull at it with their powerful beaks, instead.

A young king vulture standing on a table with his back toes crossed over each other

December 2, 2025 at 8:57 PM

oakie

@geckomilk.bsky.social

My sweet slumbering princess getting her beauty sleep

Ferret asleep with her eyes open and mouth open looking very silly

December 3, 2025 at 4:31 AM

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Natalia Jagielska (娜塔莉)

@nataliajagielska.bsky.social

Fun fact, a lot of wonderful scientific illustrations you see in the 19th century natural science publications, were done by women, usually spouses of the researchers as uncredited free labour. The famous finches, came from John Gould, his wife, Elizabeth, illustrated his ornithology books.

Nick Desnoyer @nickdesnoyer.bsky.social · 22d

This is not an attack on Biorender, which serves a useful function.

It’s exposing a troubling phenomenon that is unconsciously sucking the artistry out of science and reinforcing a silent conformity in its presentation and perception.

December 1, 2025 at 1:17 PM

oakie

@geckomilk.bsky.social

Hugest yet: Dolphins and ocean piece

I didn't have most of the colors and usually my replacements have gone well but this time the seagull came out purple. Kind of want to quit but maybe it'll be fine. So much left to do and I'll pretend that he's ace. Unsure yet if I do the other gull the same

November 30, 2025 at 5:44 AM

oakie

@geckomilk.bsky.social

Thankful for my sweet babies. Missing my angels 😇

Two ferrets snuggled on top of each other

November 28, 2025 at 3:54 AM

oakie

@geckomilk.bsky.social

A month without her and I'm still having a tough time daily. At least the other two aren't horribly depressed

Male ferret photo taken mid lick so his tongue is on his lips mouth wide open

Small ferret sleeping curled up on a cozy blanket

November 22, 2025 at 3:28 PM

oakie

@geckomilk.bsky.social

I am figuring this shit out 😤 crochet is so hard and frustrating and my cheap ass yarn is NOT helping

A dark green leaf made in crochet with the hook still attached. It sits on a table with a MacBook above it

October 18, 2025 at 12:01 AM

oakie

@geckomilk.bsky.social

I did another one I will take awhile to patch up

A pink tamagotchi cross stitch, the round egg like pet game of the 2000s. It sits on a journal open to the page of colors used. It reads tamagotchi pink, heart 3740, border 3731, body 3716, buttons 963, screen 3761, face 3750. Brown scissors help decorate the image.

The pink cross stitched tamagotchi of the previous image but closer up to see details

October 15, 2025 at 9:13 AM

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Dragon "Gay'ed Too Close to the Sun" Fish

@dragonfish.bsky.social

It's so funny that white people always bring up the lie about brown people being cannibals when eating people is the most common thing in their culture.

Feeling sick? Eat this 3,000 year old corpse!

Didn't pack enough food? Eat that guy who died yesterday!

Mad at your government? Simply eat them!

Poople Weekly Tabloid @dumpydapumpkin.blacksky.app · Oct 13

this is christine flowers
shes an immigration lawyer here in philly and she has something to say about first nation people here in the US

Lets make her famous

October 14, 2025 at 4:02 AM

oakie

@geckomilk.bsky.social

Tried my own latch hook project and finished it in a few weeks. Rather bored and unsure what to do now. Trying out everything I have for kits and none feel good.

Above angle shot of a handmade latch hook rug on the canvas still uncut. It is on a desk. The design is a Pokemon named piplup which is a blue penguin. He has spiral eyes to show confusion

A close up of the previous rug to show the yarn up close

October 13, 2025 at 3:32 PM

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Nora Reed (they/them ze/hir)

@nora.zone

Hello bluesky! I'm Nora and I have a jewelry store focused on fused glass; I also have game tokens and worry stones.

Collage: nora.jewelry/collections/...
Cluster: nora.jewelry/collections/...
Worry stones: nora.jewelry/search?q=wor...
Earrings: nora.jewelry/collections/...

#bsnm

ad for the nora.jewelry collage collection, which consists of pieces made from patterned cane with some transparency piled on top of other different color canes and turned into a molded shape; the transparency creates a lot of depth in the final pieces, because you can see through the transparent bits to what is behind it. pictures are a pair of round green, white and purple cufflinks, a orange and yellow bolo tie, and a teardrop shaped pendant with a green/white design added to a pink design

ad for the cluster collection, a group of fused glass pendants (and a couple other things, but only pendants are pictured) made from placing glass cylinders on their ends in a group and melting them just enough to round them out but not enough to make them fully puddle like most of my designs. the result of this ends up looking a bit like fish eggs adhered to a flat surface, or a bundle of grapes. the ones pictured are a simple round aqua blue design with yellow middles, a purple design with distorted flowers (this one started out as regular flowers but rounded their petals in the kiln, blurring them) and a round tan design with brown and white middles.

worry stone collection: this one has an orange collage design worry stone in an abstract shape, a white and green one where the edges between the colors blur, and a round one in a bi pride pattern.

earring collection: this one shows a sparkly green aventurine pair of round earrings, one that's white/grey/clear with black spots (that one's made from spiral cane that I made flat and you can see the spiral in the final design) and one with swirling green, yellow and pink set in white.

all the backgrounds on all of these are an aventurine dragonskin sheet that i put at low transparency over white, so they have a lacy quality to them.

October 11, 2025 at 3:32 PM

oakie

@geckomilk.bsky.social

Miss Rudy is celebrating Halloween by making some soup out of herself

Sable ferret sitting in a cauldron shaped yarn bowl

Sable ferret sitting in a cauldron shaped yarn bowl with her head looking down at the floor

October 10, 2025 at 6:01 AM

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Anzo

@anzowo.bsky.social

And also Flug from @lilalienz4ever.bsky.social !! (the original card "Flub, The Fool" was just one letter off !)

September 1, 2025 at 12:34 PM

oakie

@geckomilk.bsky.social

Our sweet girl has the lymphomas

9 months old in two days 🙏🤎🌻

Sable ferret climbing onto a pink mesh pet carrier. A hand holds it steady for her

October 2, 2025 at 8:57 PM

oakie

@geckomilk.bsky.social

My lemon tree has flowers for the first time !!! 🤗

White flowers on green leaves, the flower of a lemon tree

Closed white flower on green leaves, of a lemon tree

September 30, 2025 at 11:06 AM

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Professor Goose

@thundergoose.bsky.social

Yes! A fantastic way for folks who don’t have access to a major university library to be able to read articles.

Warwick History Post-Doc Club @post-doc-club.bsky.social · Sep 29

Great news!
JSTOR now have a free account with an Independent Researcher category. You can access 100 documents per month

www.jstor.org/action/showL...